Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization

Evidence

Now, since this is M. Mannoni’s point of departure, why does he try to make the inferiority complex something that antedates colonization? Here one perceives the mechanism of explanation that, in psychiatry, would give us this: There are latent forms of psychosis that become overt as the result of a traumatic experience. Or, in somatic medicine, this: The appearance of varicose veins in a patient does not arise out of his being compelled to spend ten hours a day on his feet, but rather out of the constitutional weakness of his vein walls; his working conditions are only a complicating factor. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317

Categorization

• QUESTION: Directly relevant to the reader’s goal of analyzing how education location produces psychological effects in colonial subjects - Fanon is attacking the move that locates the cause inside the colonized rather than in the colonial situation.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanism (latent psychosis becoming overt) that Mannoni uses to reverse the causal direction of the inferiority complex.
• XREF: connects to: Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does; Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization.; Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence. (+6 more)

Related

• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.91)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.90)
• Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence. (similarity 0.88)
• Mannoni claimed colonized peoples unconsciously desired their own colonization (similarity 0.85)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.84)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.83)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.83)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.83)
• Educated colonized subjects feel defensive before any actual conflict occurs (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude (similarity 0.82)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate #contradicts (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341
• Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual #complicates (0.60)